Would a rose by any other name smell so sweet? Can a word or name with an extra letter mean to deceive?
Being a woman of these modern times, even one who studied English, it took me a viewing of the “period” television show, Merlin, to introduce me to the antiquated term, “prat”. (Video clip below.) Flat-out, it just means “ass”. (OK, ok, buttocks.)
Immediately I thought of our dear enemy, Spencer. Even though a search led me to read his surname means “trick”, perhaps the worse half of Speidi put those two ideas together. The trick is the “acting” and minus the t from trick is all ass – or a-hole.
This does not mean we cannot blame Mr. Pratt. It just means we can amuse ourselves with some appropriate name calling.
